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It seems that there is cross party agreement between people
in Scottish Labour, Scottish Conservatives and even the SNP!

What has brought everyone together?

It is the pressing need for Nicola Sturgeon to sack Scotland’s most
famous "struggling" Health Secretary Shona Robison. Those in the SNP
are waking up to the fact that Sturgeon, their golden ticket isn’t producing
the goods. Support is falling, a second independence bid is looking
increasingly distant, and the SNP in Government has no real direction to what
represents a better Scotland.

SNP….. Strong on Slogans, Strong on Failure.

What Shona Robison represents is cronyism, back in the day;
the only real threat to Nicola Sturgeon was the ‘Golden couple’ from Dundee, Robison and her husband Stewart Hosie. At SNP
Conferences, the Golden couple’ had everything to propel them to the
leadership, top jobs, brand names and family. Then came the dark times, Stewart
Hosie goes an ploughs into another woman, a younger woman, a better looking
woman, and the wheels came off the ‘Golden couple’. Hosie resigns as from his leadership
position, and the SNP summer offensive for campaigning for indy hits the ‘brickwall’.

The problems with Shona Robison as Health Secretary started
long before the public became aware of the Hosie situation, in fact, they
started immediately on day one of Robison being made the health minister. The
SNP treat ministerial offices as big pay days. What everyone knew was missing
from those ministerial posts was time, time and solving problems. Years ago, I
stated the SNP leadership had a habit of dumping problems onto others to fix
and wash their hands of it. The same mentality is still present in the SNP. Insiders
say that Robison needs to go and there has to be wide-ranging Government reshuffle.

And this is where the real problems lie, Robison is a dud.

One SNP MSP described the Sturgeon administration
as “tired” and added:

“There’s a feeling her Government is a bit of an old pal’s
act.”

Tired is an understatement, this SNP Government is a one
trick pony which is why in 2017, 56 SNP MPs went down to 35 SNP MPs, and other’s
seats were hanging by a thread. Now the senior SNP are waking up to the fact
that their ‘bread and butter’ isn’t secure under Nicola Sturgeon. There is a
possibility that the minority administration is heading towards being a minority
administration without being able to have the Scottish Greens onboard to get an
overall majority. The SNP insiders fear is real, minority government is the
best placed scenario at the moment, the situation could turn drastically worse.

Nicola Sturgeon has failed to demonstrate leadership since
taking up the post following the departure of Alex Salmond, Salmond built a
legacy of support which has been eroded steadily by Sturgeon.

In the SNP, if you speak out you can be punished, so
insiders speaking on condition of anonymity said the SNP Government lacks an
overarching vision on domestic policy. Like a rabbit in headlines, everything
revolves around Scottish independence, as if the next time they will win.

2014
told a story in Scotland,
it showed how deceitful the SNP were and willing to stoop to achieve their goal,
they painted a picture, all built on lies.

People don’t like being lied too!

Robison has been Health Secretary for over three years but
has faced repeated calls to resign, she lurches from crisis to crisis, in her
local area Dundee, there is a health crisis, there
is a wider GP recruitment problem, and she can’t get the overstretched
ambulances to respond any better.

Nicola Sturgeon ran the health service into the ground, then
she bailed just before the cracks showed, everyone who came into post after her
was hit with a stack of problems which swamped them. One funny part to this
story is that SNP insiders believe that MSP Jeane Freeman would be better at
health, talk about grasping at straws. Freeman’s fame is that she is an ex
Labour hack who worked for Jack McConnell, a member of the dreadful ‘Women for Independence’ and a former
‘quango queen’. Freeman was a former board member at the Scottish Police
Authority and her experience of the NHS is chairing the board of the Golden
Jubilee Foundation.

What the SNP insiders fail to grasp is there is a huge
difference chairing a board to day to day running of a department! When it came
to accepting new Social Security powers for Scotland,
Nicola Sturgeon had to tell Westminster
to hold back on them because the SNP Government couldn’t cope yet. All that Jeane
Freeman has done is to help new Social Security (Scotland) Bill through Holyrood
last week.

Finally, it was said by an SNP MSP:

“Alex Salmond’s Cabinet had more talent because he brought
people in on ability. With Nicola, there’s a feeling her Government is a bit of
an old pal’s act. She’s a cautious politician, but we are getting to the stage
where caution looks like inertia.”

That appraisal is debatable, Kenny MacAskill was a dud as Justice
Sec, Sturgeon herself used smoke and mirrors to fool everyone she was capable
at health, and wasn’t. The fact remains changing deckchairs isn’t what the
people of Scotland need;
they need a new ship, that isn’t the SNP to take Scotland forward. One thing which I
found particularly funny is Humza Yousaf is believed to be in the running for a
promotion. During the recent bad weather, Humza Yousaf was exposed for being
unable to guarantee food security by keeping the roads open.

He reacted too late, in line with an SNP Government who
react post events, instead of being ahead of the curve.

Having been told that the offer by Prime Minister Theresa
May is final on Brexit, Nicola Sturgeon has decided to stand alone against the UK government
in an unwinnable fight. Fighting for the sake of fighting is stupid. Nicola Sturgeon’s act is more in line with someone who is an
‘attention seeker’ rather than a serious politician.

Sturgeon wanted a constitutional
crisis in order to try and restarted another doomed to fail Scottish independence bid
and it now looks inevitable that a date with the UK Supreme Court is on the
cards.

In attempting to appear meaningful, the SNP leader has dismissed
London's offer on the EU Withdrawal Bill as not
being in the Scottish national interest, this is a joke because the SNP aren’t
interested in the best interests of Scotland.

If Theresa May’s offer
was so bad, the Labour government in Wales won’t have done a compromise
on the Bill earlier this week. In a crude attempt to rally Labour in Scotland,
Sturgeon said that no self-respecting MSP could support the
Conservative offer. This is Sturgeon playing at politics, she knows she will
lose, and wants to have parliament back into two camps, pro UK Vs nationalists.

People like Nicola Sturgeon don’t care about anything except
getting her way; she regarded the final Brexit amendments as unacceptable. She
saying this would allow the UK
government to override the will of Holyrood and impose legislation.
If you think back to the Council tax freeze, the SNP didn’t have a problem
using threatens to override the will of Councils to impose the freeze or face
consequences.

Whitehall have made it clear Theresa May does not intend to
offer Scotland anything beyond its deal with Cardiff, and if MSPs
withhold consent for the EU Bill, it will mean the UK government will continue
its challenge to Holyrood’s alternative Brexit Bill at the Supreme Court. There
is a case to be made for more powers for Holyrood but now there is a case to be
made for removal of powers. In recent weeks, there is a feeling among some that
this needs to go further and closed down Holyrood, the parliament has been an
expensive failure due to the calibre of MSPs selected and elected.

In politics, the direction of travel must be forward, and it
is time that the UK
government pressed ahead, although intergovernmental talks have been pencilled,
this won’t solve the problem. Westminster must
act to protect the UK
economic interest and secure our ‘single market’ this means it must impose Brexit
legislation. Given that the people of Scotland rejected the SNP version
of independence, there will be no real support for the SNP controlled Holyrood.

I have to say I look forward to Nicola Sturgeon losing at
the UK Supreme Court, and despite Sturgeon’s emphatic rejection of the UK government’s
offer, nothing will be stopping Brexit. This is the problem with Sturgeon; she
is the past, a ghost of the past who thinks she is politically relevant in
2018.

Nicola Sturgeon along with Alex Salmond became politically irrelevant
at 10 pm on the 14th September 2014, and although anger carried the
tide for them to get 56 MPs, in less than two short years, the head had been
cut off the SNP Westminster snake and the 56 became 35.

The 35 SNP MPs in some constituencies hang by a thread.

It seems to me that UK wanting to retain control over
24 devolved areas, most related to agriculture, fisheries and the environment,
for up to seven years after Brexit isn’t a big deal. It isn’t a big deal
because it is in Scotland’s
national interest to create UK-wide frameworks to protect the internal market.

A strong UK
means a stronger Scotland.

So, why doesn’t the SNP grasp this?

The answer is simple….. time!

Time catches up with everyone and everything, in history
there are certain times of opportunity to effect change, the SNP think they can
wipe the slate clean, generate the same level of interest in another
independence bid. What Brexit has done has been to change the political
landscape of the UK.
This event left the SNP exposed as their own independence narrative is now
worthless, and once we are out, the appetite for returning to the EU won’t be
there, a million Scots said no to EU membership. The EU is falling apart with
member states becoming increasingly unhappy about the way it is run and who it
is run by.

At First Minister’s Questions, Scottish Tory leader Ruth
Davidson accused Ms Sturgeon of “dancing on the head of a pin” to find
excuses not to reach agreement.

She said:

“There is a deal to be done here. The Welsh have backed it,
other parties in this chamber back it, and business wants her to back it, so
will the First Minister for once do a deal in the national interest and not in
her nationalist interest?”

Everybody knows what is going on, the SNP is a party which
has seen its voter share fall, in fact I came across a video where someone who
voted SNP described Nicola Sturgeon as ‘BITCH’ and a ‘COW’ for imposing minimum
pricing on alcohol. I wonder how many votes the SNP will be losing over minimum
pricing on alcohol?

Will there be convoys to England for cheap booze?

LibDem MSP Tavish Scott said:

“We have been constantly assured that SNP Ministers would
work to achieve an agreement across the governments of the UK. They now
look set to depart from that position. Uncertainty for businesses and citizens
continues. That is not in Scotland’s
interests.”

Lord Hope of Craighead, formerly Scotland’s
most senior judge, said the UK
and Scottish governments appeared “very close to agreement” but the reality is,
you can’t trust the SNP anymore than you can trust a rabid dog not to bite when
angry. There is only ‘low road’ politics where the SNP are concerned,
grievance, grievance, grievance; it is a record that has grown old.

Lord Hope of Craighead added:

“One of the boundaries [of devolution] is that the Scottish
Parliament cannot legislate in areas that are outside its own territory. The UK
government is saying ‘we can’t give you a veto over this’, which is effectively
what the Scottish government is asking for and it is difficult to get round
that final position.”

Finally, although the SNP is made up of many MSPs who are lawyers,
there is a distain for the law, the SNP don’t do law well. Nicola Sturgeon
herself is a lawyer with a less than glowing legal career behind her. It is
time that Nicola Sturgeon learned that she won’t be damaging Scotland and the rest of the UK national
interest and if that means a Court case so be it. Sturgeon’s position as SNP
leader is becoming more untenable day by day, people even in the nationalist
community will be asking how long must this sham of a leader continue before
they say 'enough is enough'?

Unfit for command, unfit to be a leader, angry bitter Nicola
Sturgeon lost Brexit badly, standing on the wrong side of history, she has been
unable to adpat to the change of landscape unfolding across the UK. The SNP had
an opportunity to get involved in the Brexit talks, they squandered that chance
by being narrow minded, spiteful and nasty, now they are left with nothing.

Prime Minister Theresa May has put a final offer on Brexit
on the table for Nicola Sturgeon, since forward progress is impossible and time
is precious, and lets mention the complete lack of goodwill, the offer is take
it or leave. No matter what Nicola Sturgeon does, no matter what games she
plays, no matter what delays, what grievances she can manufacture, Brexit is
happening.

So, when did Nicola Sturgeon know this as hard fact, this
event was the day the letter was put in for withdrawal of membership by the UK. This event
should have led to a change in SNP policy, but it didn’t, Sturgeon formed the ‘gang
of two’ with the Welsh Assembly in a vain attempt to stop Brexit, this showed
her utter contempt for democracy and the people of the UK.

Now, the SNP stands alone!

The Prime Minister is right to give no further ground to Nicola
Sturgeon on her flagship Brexit bill, one of the key thing about
leadership is the ability to adpat to events before they happen, this is called
being ahead of the curve. Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t possess this ability; she is
a ‘reactor’. Being isolated puts the Scottish Government alone in
opposition following a breakthrough deal with Cardiff. It seems the Welsh have gotten what
they need, and no more concessions will be offered. There is no point in
dealing with the SNP, they aren’t a party to do business with, and there is no
benefit to Whitehall
doing anything which places and jeopardises the agreement with the Labour-run
Welsh Government.

Two words from a senior UK Government source sums up the new
position;

“That’s it.”

This leads Nicola Sturgeon two choices, she can back down
and lose face, or she can see a cross-border constitutional clash take place
with the certainty that the “vital” piece of legislation to produce legal
certainty after Brexit will be pushed through regardless.

That will be done with or without the consent of MSPs!

If Nicola Sturgeon ends up at the UK Supreme Court, she will
lose badly as the

Welsh Government will repeal its own Continuity Bill. The
SNP track record at the UK Supreme Court has been appalling but this loss will
be significant and far reaching.

Only an idiot fights a battle they can’t win!

Welsh Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford said:

“London’s
willingness to listen to our concerns and enter serious negotiations has been
welcome. In a devolved UK,
the respective governments need to deal with each other as equals and this
agreement is a step in the right direction.”

Nicola Sturgeon will enter the UK Supreme Court with a weak
case, and leave it with a loss as the agreement of the Welsh Government has
greatly strengthened Conservative Ministers hand. In a vain attempt to appear
meaningful and garner support which is ebbing away from her, Nicola Sturgeon
took to twitter to say:

“The bottom line on #EUWithdrawalBill at this stage is this
– @scotparl powers on vital matters could be restricted for up to seven years
without our consent. @Scotgov will not recommend consent to that – but we have
put forward solutions that would form the basis of a deal.”

Some people just dive head first into stupidity and clearly
Nicola Sturgeon is stupid enough to continue with this sham. In a letter to the
Prime Minister, Sturgeon has insisted clause 11 of the bill, which deals
with the transfer of devolved powers after Brexit, showed an “imbalance and
lack of trust”.

Well, there certainly is a lack of trust, the SNP have for
years fostered division, grievance and burning bridges at every opportunity
with Westminster, they have shown contempt openly, been divisive and failed to
work constructively as much as humanly possible.

The SNP cannot get past their ‘low road’ politics which has
dragged Scotland down to be a laughing stock, even within the independence
community, people are releasing what I said years ago, the people of Scotland
will not vote for independence if it means having the SNP in charge.

The SNP record in government is appalling!

Sturgeon’s Brexit Minister Michael Russell said in a
statement to MSPs, the Scottish Government’s argument is the UK legislation is
a “crude power-grab”. The same old story, the same position, where is the
forward direction, it doesn’t exist. Apparently Whitehall sources stated that Russell had
been “content” with a deal at the end of last week before being overruled by Nicola
Sturgeon.

It seems that SNP women are the problem, specifically Nicola
Sturgeon, how long before the nationalist community wake up and call for her to
stand down? Nicola Sturgeon isn’t delivering for Scotland; she is wrapped up in
petty narrow interest which puts her at odds with the wider independence
movement.

Nicola Sturgeon is no leader of men!

Mike Russell suggests two possible ways forward:

l/ Removing clause 11 from the bill so both governments
could then agree, on equal terms, not to bring forward legislation in devolved
policy areas while negotiations on common frameworks were taking place.

2/ Reverting to the present system, that Holyrood should
give its consent to Westminster
legislating in devolved areas.

Removing clause 11 is a non-starter and as to reverting to
the present system, this could only happen if there is goodwill on both sides,
clearly there is none on the SNP benches.

Russell added:

“These are practical, workable solutions to this issue that
will ensure the necessary preparations for Brexit can be taken across the UK whilst
protecting devolution,” he declared.

Adam Tomkins, the Scottish Conservatives’ constitution
spokesman, accused Ms Sturgeon of putting “her narrow Nationalist agenda before
the good of the country” which is correct.

He added:

“The Welsh Government has signed up to this deal yet Nicola
Sturgeon, alone, refuses because she prefers to pick a fight with the rest of
the UK
in order to keep her obsession with a second independence referendum alive.”

The important issue which the SNP should have acknowledged
and protected is the economic integrity of the United Kingdom. A strong UK means a stronger Scotland, and this is the problem,
as many people have commented in the past, the calibre of Holyrood MSPs is
particularly poor, in fact, it is dreadful.

Finally, as I stated ages ago, the SNP had a golden opportunity
to get onboard with the winning side, they chose to cut their nose off to spite
their face, Brexit will go ahead regardless of what the SNP do. This episode
shows why the SNP need a new leader, another sign of this is the lack of
quality candidates willing to come forward for the position of depute leader.
At some point there has to be a changing of the old guard of the SNP; that
means that Nicola Sturgeon has to go. The future is changing and that means
there is no place for Nicola Sturgeon at the top table or indeed any table.

Freedom of Speech, pretty important and a cornerstone of a
free society, if you lose the right then you don’t live in a democracy. When
you lose freedom of Speech, you lose everything; people should have the right
to saw what they want unless it breaks the law.

In the case of the prankster convicted of hate crimes after
releasing a viral video in which he trains his dog to Sieg Heil, there appears
to be an issue, the issue is why was he convicted?

What he did was grossly offensive, but in any crime, the
benchmark should be did he have criminal intent, this is called Mens rea.

Having looked at this case in passing, we shouldn’t get
tried up with anything else but the facts; and I would suggest that Mark
Meechan, who was fined £800 and now has a criminal conviction didn’t meet that
benchmark. When I wrote about human rights in the past, you will recall that I
have always said that the problem doesn’t exist with the legislation but the
judges.

Although Airdrie
Sheriff Court maybe on the fringes of
civilisation, the Sheriff in this case got it wrong, you have the right in law
to Freedom of Speech; you don’t have a right in law to be offended. It seems
that the Sheriff in this case used his personal opinion to decide that the "gas
the Jews" video was grossly offensive hence guilty.

In other words he erred in law because, the benchmark of Mens
rea wasn’t reached, he wandered off the legal beaten track and came to the
wrong conclusion. The two-year-old M8 Yer Dugs A Nazi video which I have seen
is stupid, but that is the point of the video, its Mark Meechan attempt at
comedy.

If we accept Mark Meechan is guilty, do we accept that Mel
Brooks is guilty for making the film, The Producers?

Should we all run to the police and get him arrested next
time he sets foot on Scottish soil?

This is the ridiculous position which Mark Meechan’s
conviction throws up, whatever the ‘act’ is becomes meaningless, it’s the feelings
of the other person being offended, which isn’t how the law is supposed to
work.

A public appeal to raise the money needed to fight the case
is going live on gofundme.com, the fund-raising website whether you contribute
is entirely your affair but this is about the principle of Freedom of Speech
which clearly the Sheriff doesn’t get it.

The Washington Post on their YouTube channel has the video;
does this lot strike you as an organisation which is anti-Semitic?

Dozens of supporters of Meechan, including former English
Defence League leader Tommy Robinson, were at Airdrie Sheriff Court for the court
hearing and in London,
hundreds gathered an anti-censorship march in support of Meechan.

Robinson said:

"I think the police have used the Jewish
community in this instance to silence people and they've actually tried to
tarnish the Jewish community as though they can't take a joke. At worst it is
distasteful humour, it certainly is not inciting religious hatred against Jews.
Frankie Boyle has said far worse things so why hasn't he been prosecuted?"

You also prosecute, Sacha Baron Cohen should he be immediately
be arrested for posting a video of himself singing the song Throw the Jew Down
the Well?

Sacha Baron Cohen is jewish, he is an actor who lampoons
people as he has done in his movies, he played the "anti-Semitic
idiot" Borat in the movie of the same name which some people might find grossly
offensive.

Meechan, from Coatbridge did
his M8 Yer Dugs A Nazi video featuring his pug Buddha as a joke to wind up his
girlfriend, he stuck it up on Youtube and the video got three million views.
People like crude and offensive comedy, when it is unusual and outrageous it
can attract attention.

Sentencing Meechan, Sheriff Derek O'Carroll said the video
was grossly offensive and that his girlfriend did not even subscribe to the
video channel he posted it on.

You don’t have to subscribe to a channel to watch its
contents on Youtube!

O’Carroll said:

"The centrepiece of your video consists of you
repeating the phrase 'gas the Jews' over and over again as a command to a dog,
which then reacts. Sometimes the phrase is You want to gas the Jews'. You
recite 'gas the Jews' in a variety of dramatic ways. 'Gas the Jews' in one form
or another is repeated by you 23 times within a few minutes.

This is called a compilation which means, he cut and pasted
clips together, therefore the time frame which O'Carroll used as a
justification is meaningless.

He added:

"You use the command 'Sieg Heil', having trained the
dog to raise its paw in response and the video shows a clip of a Nuremberg rally and a
flashing image of Hitler with strident music. You say the video was only
intended as a joke to upset your girlfriend, whose dog you used, and nothing
more. On the whole evidence, including your own, applying the law as made by Parliament and
interpreted by the most senior courts in this land, I found it proved that the
video you posted, using a public communications network, was grossly offensive
and contained menacing, anti-Semitic and racist material. You deliberately
chose the Holocaust as the theme of the video. You purposely used the command
'gas the Jews' as the centrepiece of what you called the entire joke,
surrounding the 'gas the Jews' centrepiece with Nazi imagery and the 'Seig
Heil' command so there could be no doubt what historical events you were referring
to."

Joe Rogan, the American commentator does a show which he
covers this case.

What Sheriff Derek O'Carroll did was a disgrace, his
diatribe which he tries to put the blame of on Parliament is pitiful; people
fought and died for Freedom of Speech, and here we have someone who destroys
that hard fought freedom by doing the wrong thing.

I hope this appeal
goes forward, as I mentioned, I don’t see how Sheriff Derek O'Carroll
reached the benchmark of Mens rea, there was no ‘guilty mind’ hence there wasn’t
a crime.

Holyrood has been a failure, although you could place a lot
of blame at the door of the SNP, the truth is the Parliament is as Daisley
describes, the actions of the Parliament in caustic detail by summing up by
saying this:

“So far this year parliamentary time has been used to debate
Earth Hour, the superior quality of Scottish building stones, and ‘the economic
potential of Robert Burns’. MSPs have tabled motions welcoming the opening of a
ferry terminal, congratulating a school dance troupe on its triumph in a
regional contest, honouring a pub in Kilmarnock
for winning an award, and marking the retirement of woman from her job at
M&S in Kirkcaldy”.

Daisley added:

“The 1999 intake was a class of also-rans and those who
could only dream of being so exalted. The country was to be governed by
over-promoted councillors and the finest solicitors our district courts had to
offer”.

Holyrood in a nutshell!

I voted for Labour leader Richard Leonard because, he
represented the best chance for the Labour Party in Scotland to hopefully move its
forward.

It is the 23rd April, since the start of the year; the
Labour Party has effectively done nothing of note in campaigning terms. The ‘civil
war’ between the left and the right is still going on but quietly, the right is
binding its time, well what else can they do.

One thing which is going on in the Labour Party in Scotland is the idea that federal British state
solves all the problems of SNP ‘civic’ Nationalism in Scotland. Kezia
Dugdale of the ‘right’ and now Labour leader Richard Leonard of the 'left' supports this idea.

Federalism solves nothing, in fact, the people aren’t
talking about it, don’t want it, and other than the Lib Dems, there isn't the
appetite for it either side of the border.

This is a policy which needs Labour
to be in control both sides of the border. If they were in control of Westminster and Holyrood
they would have the numbers to push it through, and given the state of the
party, that idea at present is non viable.

Labour leader Richard Leonard saying Jeremy Corbyn must
“get a move on” with plans for a federal British state doesn’t help the Labour
Party in Scotland.
As the third party in Scotland
after being overtaken by the Conservatives, the party lacks credibility at
present with the people who matter.

That’s the voters!

If you were to ask what does federalism mean and how does it
work in practice in Scotland if pushed through, you wouldn’t get a convincing
answer from most Labour MSPs, HQ staff, activists or rank and file members. One
thing the Labour Party is good at is change; that would be change for change
sake, to look as if they are doing something when in fact they are just moving “deckchairs”
about. After being wiped out in Scotland
in 2015, the snap 2017 election brought some joy as the number of Labour MPs
went from 1 to 7.

An unremarkable achievement from a party which dominate
Scottish politics for decades! So far since returning to the Labour Party in
October last year, I haven’t done a single day of activism, not attended a
single meeting, the first four months of my membership, I was banned from
attending meetings in Pollok CLP. The Labour Party rules state however I was
allowed to attend but in the initial rejoining period of 8 weeks I wouldn’t get
voting rights.

The SNP constantly scream about getting more powers, but
that is a double edge sword, the more powers they get, the less people will
view independence as credible. Once Labour leader Richard Leonard made his
pitch, the SNP and Greens savaged Leonard for his intervention, the Greens
are seen as an SNP proxy vote cache. In general terms, there should be a major
reshaping of the British state due to Brexit, but the constant leeching away of
powers fuels discontent in Scotland.

I would put it this way, how long can you sit and listen to
a tap dripping before you get ratty?

They want a new settlement from Westminster
regarding the UK,
in politics, the assumption that people can be ‘bought off’ still remains a
driving theme. Richard Leonard says he wants Labour to set out a radical
alternative to Scottish independence, well now he has said it, what does federalism
mean in practice?

Federalism could see parliaments in the four nations of the UK - Northern
Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England sharing equal powers, with
a federal government retaining control over foreign affairs, defence, currency,
welfare and pensions. The problem with this is that the UK at present
has parties going in different directions, and unless the direction of travel
is the same, this would lead to problems, major problems, co-operation to make
federalism work isn’t there, although it has its supporters in other parties. I
don’t see it in the interest of the UK
as a body to end up being fractured and the idea of the creation of regional
assemblies across England
is rubbish. When John Prescott tried to get this idea off the ground, the
people wouldn’t buy into it.

At the present time, there is no interest in Federalism and
the Labour Party should recognise this, but as Stephen Daisley said about
Holyrood:

“Holyrood must stop talking to itself and start listening to
the people it serves”.

The exact same thing could be applied to the Labour Party,
they are out of government on both sides of the border because they refused to listen
to the people it serves, and ploughed on regardless. The change in Scottish
politics means now that there are no safe Labour seats in any area of Scotland,
if you want elected you have to work for it.

Richard Leonard said he would be “pushing” for Corbyn to
commit to legislate for a federal UK if Labour wins the next General Election.

He added:

“I'm in favour of abolition of the House of Lords and I can
see there being a case (for federalism), especially if we are moving towards a
more federal constitution with a second chamber that is comprised of
representatives from Scotland, Wales and the regions of England and Northern
Ireland. So I can see that there is a strong case that kind of reform.”

Finally, I am not in favour of abolition of the House of
Lords, and I am not in favour of a second chamber that is comprised of
representatives from Scotland,
Wales and the regions of England and Northern Ireland because of
cronyism. One thing about the House of Lords is that it does have independent
voices who speak out, we would lose this with a crony elected new second
chamber. We should lose our history and traditions because of some people’s desire
for cheap political expediency.

Yet again, yet again, the SNP are on the wrong side of
history, the wrong side of the argument, Theresa May won a Commons vote
on the military action in Syria.
In true SNP fashion, the SNP in gripe mode decided to claim that a No 10
intelligence briefing had been used to “manipulate” certain MPs.

The sad fact is intelligence briefings are not a political
circus to “manipulate” anyone; these briefs are done by professionals,
professionals whose entire job is to protect our country by ensuring the right
information is made available to the government.

Theresa May, the Prime Minister insists British lives would
be compromised if it became illegal for governments to launch military action
without the prior backing of MPs. This isn’t a time for petty politics; the SNP
jumped on the bandwagon here because they saw an opportunity, and now are left
with egg on their faces. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s call for the
introduction of a War Powers Act would “seriously compromise” the safety of the
nation and would get people needlessly killed. In today’s fast moving
situations, action has to be swift and decisive.

US and France along with the UK have carried out missile strikes
on three targets which they have “specifically associated with the Syrian
regime’s chemical weapons programme”. They didn’t just pick three random
targets out of a hat; they did so by using tradecraft and having assets on the
ground. After the airstrikes, Yury
Filatov, the ambassador of the Russian Federation to Ireland, piped up to say hat
Russia, was losing “the last bit of trust” it had with the west and described
this as a “very dangerous development”.

Trust is a two way street, and one has to wonder why the
Russians haven’t been more clever in the way that they do business, the
incident in Salisbury was rank stupidity, then to have RT ‘brag’ about the UK
not being safe for people who betray Russia was an attempt to rub our faces in
it. The upshot was that several Russians were sent packing, here and also in
other Western countries, not exactly a successful operation, and aftermath.

Experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons are in Douma to establish whether chemical weapons were used
there; and what we should remember is that in order to produce these kinds of
weapons takes expertise and expensive facilities; you can’t just cook it up in
a pot.

During the recent Commons debate, Mrs May told MPs:

“Making it unlawful for Her Majesty’s Government to
undertake any such military intervention without a vote would seriously
compromise our national security, our national interests, and the lives of
British citizens at home and abroad. And for as long as I’m Prime Minister,
that will never be allowed to happen.”

Jeremy Corbyn who isn’t apt at foreign affairs described the
Syrian air strikes as “legally questionable” and made clear he would only
support military intervention with United Nations’ support. Given the Russians
have a veto on the Security Council, and they are Syria’s principal backer, the UN
route would produce an East v West stalemate.

Jeremy Corbyn told MPs:

“I am sorry to say the Prime Minister’s decision not to
recall Parliament and engage in further military action in Syria last week showed a flagrant
disregard for this convention.”

The deeply butt hurt and irrelevant SNP in the shape of Ian
Blackford criticised the “failure” of the Government to recall Parliament, his
sidekick Stewart McDonald, the SNP’s defence spokesman, decided to whine like a
little girl on how certain Labour MPs had been invited to Downing Street for
a private briefing on the Syria air strikes by Sir Mark Sedwill, the National
Security Advisor.

Stewart McDonald, the SNP’s defence spokesman, not invited
it seems, after all, leaving aside he is a sheep who falls the SNP Party line,
what does he know about defence?

Did he play Soldiers as a boy?

Did he play Cowboys and Indians as a squaw?

Watch war movies like Operation Burma?

Stewart McDonald said of being left out of the briefing:

“These briefings appear to have been offered to members of
the Labour Opposition not on the basis of privy counsellor status but on the
basis of those opposition members who are sympathetic to the Government’s
position. That leads to concerns that the Government is using intelligence
briefings to manipulate Parliament and to bolster its own case for its
behaviour on the opposition benches; not on security terms, but on politics.”

Maybe Sir Mark Sedwill; the National Security Advisor didn’t
want someone like Stewart McDonald stinking the place, up asking all sorts of daft
questions in the briefing. Stewart
McDonald, SNP’s defence spokesman in name only, a phoney title which commands
no respect at Westminster.

Finally, imagine being so stupid to flag up in Parliament that
you are not worthy to be invited to a briefing by Sir Mark Sedwill; the
National Security Advisor. You have to laugh about this, surely the correct
route would be a letter to ask to be included in future briefings but that kind
of logic is probably beyond this wee joke.

If you are going to fight a war, you should always make sure
that you are in the right, and have the necessary resources, pre-plan and have
experienced people to carry it through.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has entered a pointless fight
with the UK
government which has led them to challenge her “devolved” Brexit legislation.
The matter has been referred to the UK Supreme Court, so what are the chances
of success for the SNP Government?

I would say, looking at their previous track record, the
chances look from remote to nil on this occasion, for me there are two issues
which will see the SNP lose.

1/ Until we leave the EU, all relevant sections of power
remain reserved to Westminster.

2/ The SNP Government cannot circumvent powers returned to
the UK from Brussels
without them first passing through Westminster.

Either one of these issues in my opinion should see the SNP
lose.

It is entirely right and proper that the UK Government should
challenge Brexit legislation passed by the Scottish and Welsh devolved
administrations. The Bills passed in the Scottish Parliament and
Welsh Assembly last month was nothing more than a stupid act.

An attempt to erode democracy and the processes of democracy
which is why the matter has to go to the UK Supreme Court to get fixed, these
Bills aren’t competent and should be struck down. The decision to proceed with
legal action was taken by the Attorney General and the Advocate General for Scotland,
the government's senior law officers.

The SNP have opened a can of worms which they didn’t need to
open, and now it is coming back on them.

The UK Supreme Court is being asked to rule on whether the
legislation is constitutional and within the powers of the devolved
legislatures, as I have said, it isn’t competent

.

Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC MP said:

“This legislation risks creating serious legal uncertainty
for individuals and businesses as we leave the EU. This reference is a
protective measure which we are taking in the public interest. The Government
very much hopes this issue will be resolved without the need to continue with
this litigation.”

SNP Ministers in Edinburgh have repeatedly branded the
UK Government's EU Withdrawal Bill a "power grab" which threatens
devolution, it isn’t, the phrase ‘power grab’ may seem rather catchy but in
reality, it isn’t a serious basis to justify what they have done.

This is in part party politics, and not even smart party
politics at that being played out in the UK Supreme Court.

The Scottish Parliament's Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh has
previously ruled the Scottish EU Continuity Bill is outside Holyrood's
competence but that apparently didn’t matter to SNP ministers who simply said
they are confident it is not. Given there are so many lawyers who are SNP
Ministers, you have to wonder about the extent of their legal expertise which
appears to limited.

Advocate General for Scotland Lord Keen said:

“By referring the Scottish Parliament’s Continuity Bill to
the Supreme Court, we are seeking legal certainty as to its competence. Given
the Presiding Officer’s view at introduction that the Bill was not within the
legal scope of the Parliament, we believe it is important to ask the Court to
provide absolute clarity. In doing so we are following the process set out in
the Scotland Act 1998. Particularly in the run up to Brexit, it is vital that
we avoid legal uncertainty in our statute book.”

This case is Nicola Sturgeon’s mini Waterloo, like Napoleon, her ego has got the
better of her, now she will be publicly held up for what she is once again, an
utterly useless politician.

Sacked SNP Minister Mike Russell who failed at being
Education, now minister for UK Negotiations on Scotland’s Place in Europe Michael
Russell reiterated that Scottish Ministers are satisfied that the Continuity
Bill is within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament.

Sacked SNP Minister Mike Russell isn’t clever, far from it,
even a first year law student could drive a truck through this nonsense.

Russell said:

“The Continuity Bill was passed by 95 votes to 32 in the
Scottish Parliament; that is an overwhelming majority. Scottish Ministers are
satisfied that the Bill is within legislative competence”.

You have to laugh, 95 sheep passed a Bill, and in his mind,
that makes it okay, you couldn’t make it up, and regardless of the number, that
doesn’t make the Bill legal.

Russell added:

“The Lord Advocate will be arguing in the Supreme Court that
it is within the powers of the Scottish Parliament to prepare for the
consequences for devolved matters of UK withdrawal from the European Union. Our
Continuity Bill is an important and necessary piece of legislation to prepare Scotland’s laws
for Brexit while protecting the powers of the Scottish Parliament that people
voted for. The Scottish Government has made clear it cannot recommend the
Scottish Parliament consent to the Withdrawal Bill in its current form”.

So, Russell spells it out, the incompetent legislation is
all about an attempt to stop the people of the UK who exercised their democratic
right to leave the EU.

Russell also said:

“Alongside the Welsh Government, we have always said our
preference would be to reach an agreement with the UK Government to amend the
EU Withdrawal Bill to respect the powers of the devolved administrations and
both Governments are ready to continue meaningful talks to further
discuss potential solutions. While the Scottish Government is not opposed to
UK-wide frameworks in certain areas when these are in Scotland’s
interests, this must only happen with the agreement of the Scottish Parliament.”

The issue is clear cut, the UK Supreme Court will and should
strike down both the Holyrood and Welsh Assembly Bills, this case isn’t one of
the great legal cases but what it does do is reign in the power of Holyrood and
the Welsh Assembly. There is a case for looking at devolution so that it can be
improved so that it works better with Westminster.

In order to get that process working, we first have to
remove the SNP as the Government of Scotland, in this way we can have reform,
and we can start to have a parliament that works for all Scots, something which
isn’t happening at present. The machinery of government has been abused, skewered
to become an independence campaign machine; it doesn’t function as it should.

Finally, when Nicola Sturgeon gets defeated in the UK
Supreme Court, this will be one case which down the line she will regret, it is
a marker on the road to her exiting the post of First Minister, not be choice
but by being removed by the people.

Security of the Nation seems a rather basic concept which
many people expect the Government to take seriously and act when necessary. We
all hope that when our politicians take us to war, they do so for the right
reasons. Jeremy Corbyn wants to take away the power to wage war from future
prime ministers.

This act would place people in danger and ultimately get
people killed.

When action is required, it has to be swift in order to be
effective. The Syrian bombing campaign pitches Parliament against the
executive; Prime Minister Theresa May argues that a military campaign that saw
100 missiles used on the Assad regime’s chemical weapons factories is “the
right thing to do”.

If we are targeting chemical weapons factories, along with American
and French forces, it beggars belief that the UK opposition parties would oppose
this.

I have always said that when it comes to foreign affairs,
Jeremy Corbyn goes badly, given that as opposition leader, he would get defence
briefs, it makes his anti war stance all the more baffling. In an ideal world,
no one should be using chemical weapons, in an ideal world, the Russians would
have stepped in and told Syria
not to use such weapons. The fact is we aren’t living in an ideal world, we
cannot count on people doing the right thing from the Russian side, and we are
continually bogged down by what can be described as ‘low road’ politicians.

If the Assad regime falls, Syria becomes another unstable
and failed State in the Middle East, Syria supports Russia, and although many
in the West don’t like that, there is a time to wake up and smell the coffee, a
proxy war power struggle in this area does no one any good in the long term. We
need more Middle East countries to be stable not less, and we need everyone to
grasp the normalisation of the use of chemical weapons isn’t something anyone
should tolerate, regardless whether they are from the East or the West.

I agree with Theresa May’s decision not to give MPs a debate
and vote; it seems that the Labour Party has joined the PR campaign by Nicola
Sturgeon, that Mrs May has “sidelined” Parliament. Given that Sturgeon is
woefully out of her depth, it is ridiculous that the Labour Party should hitch
its star to her wagon.

Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti has made clear
Labour would not act against the Assad regime even if OPCW inspectors found
evidence of chemical weapons use in Douma.

Unbelievable is it not that innocent people can be murdered
and Shami Chakrabarti wouldn’t stand up and defend their right to life,
sometimes defending others right to live involves force, military action.

If there was a Westminster
election called tomorrow, how could anyone have faith in people like Diane
Abbott sitting in Cabinet, the Labour Party if it is to be seen as a viable
government needs to set up several gears!

“What we need in this country is something more robust like
a War Powers Act so that governments do get held to account by Parliament for
what they do in our name.”

War isn’t a debating club.

I have no problem with the West bombing chemical weapons
factories in Syria
because these factories represent an unacceptable threat to life.

The Labour leader told the BBC’s Marr Show:

“If we want to get the moral high ground around the world,
as a member of the Security Council, as a country with a long tradition of
international involvement, shall we say; then we have to abide by international
law. And I say to the Foreign Secretary, I say to the Prime Minister, where is
the legal basis for this?”

Getting it wrong politically usually ends up being shown in
the polls, a month ago Labour had a 7 point lead with Survation. Due to various
incidents that has disappeared following the Skripals, anti-Semitism and Syria.

The Tories are up 3 points, Labour are down 4.

Asked how Jeremy Corbyn would respond if the chemical
weapons watchdog, the OPCW, did confirm Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian leader, was
responsible, he replied:

“I would then say confront Assad with that evidence,
confront any other group that may be fingered, and then say we must now come in
and destroy those weapons.”

Bashar al-Assad isn’t a tin-pot dictator like Saddam, he is
educated, however, it seems that even educated people can be stupid sometimes;
he seems to rely too much on Russian support.

Although people have
been saying this, I don’t think so, I think the Russians can live with the
destruction of Syrian chemical weapon factories, but long term they will want a
stable Syria,
which may see them change their minds about who is best in charge.

But that scenario is
a long way off, Bashar al-Assad is their man and they want to keep the
status quo going, basically there isn’t anyone with any real claim to the Presidency
waiting in the wings.

One thing is clear, there are no winners coming out of this
war!

Finally, and to my surprise, Kate Osamor, Labour shadow
cabinet minister said Jeremy Corbyn would be “better off” leaving
statements on foreign policy to other Labour spokesmen and that he did not “need
to speak”. Later; she tweeted that her quotes had been “used selectively”.
I assume she wasn’t just thinking about the Syrian crisis and had an eye on the
long term goal of having a future Labour Government.

One thing that you will have noticed is that when the SNP
get taken to the UK Supreme Court, they lose rather badly. Whether it is a case
brought by an individual such as the Cadder Case or by a government, the
underlying principle is that the SNP don’t do law well or even understand basic
human rights.

One of the ways Nicola Sturgeon is attempting to cause
trouble is by having the Holyrood Parliament attempt to push through their own Brexit Bill.
You may ask, why is this being pushed through at such speed with scrutiny is
there a pressing need when we are still in the EU, and the deal/ talks on
withdrawal are still ongoing.

The pressing need is to cause trouble, to promote grievance
as a catalyst for a second independence referendum. The SNP Government of
Scotland is using Parliament as a vehicle for its own political ends. This time
however, Nicola Sturgeon has been more stupid then usual, incompetence maybe
the SNP trait but in this case, Sturgeon may regret this one.

Theresa May plans to mount an an unprecedented legal
challenge at the UK Supreme Court next week to stop Nicola Sturgeon’s own Brexit Bill
from becoming law. I would say that this legal challenge stands a very good
chance of being successful. The reason which makes this a likely win for
Theresa May is that foreign affairs remain a reserved matter, and that means
out with Holyrood’s remit.

One thing is clear about Brexit, there is no last minute
action, no change of mind and no reversing of the decision; we are leaving the
EU on 19th March 2019. Any and all laws returned to the UK have to first pass through the Westminster
Parliament before going on their way to devolved administrations in Edinburgh and Cardiff.
What Sturgeon is attempting to do is circumvent the chain by attempting an
illegal power grab.

This will not be allowed to happen.

There will be no stopping UK Government’s flagship EU
Withdrawal Bill and no interference of this Bill. The grievance mongering by
the SNP is all about two things, indyref 2 and the temporary hold put on some
24 powers and responsibilities so that common frameworks can be agreed to
ensure the important UK wide internal market is protected. If you have been
watching politics, you will have seen that the UK is changing, what isn’t changing
is the SNP; they are irrelevant still trying to fight battles lost long ago.

There is a new relationship developing in the UK, but there
is no critical thinking being done by the SNP, they are a party which have ran
out of time, out of options, and don’t have a narrative. Lawyers for the Prime
Minister have been examining the Continuity Bills of both the Scottish and
Welsh Governments, so expect the fireworks to kick off pretty soon, law
officers have until next Wednesday to launch a legal challenge or face the
Continuity Bills getting Royal Assent and becoming law. Once Jeremy Wright, the
Attorney General, and Lord Keen of Elie, the Advocate General, Whitehall’s
senior Scottish lawyer, make the court application, a ministerial statement is
expected to follow at Westminster.

One thing which David Mundell, the Scottish Secretary, said was
that court challenge was “not a big deal” as it was just a legal process, well
it is a legal process but it is a big deal, this will set a precedent and open
up a can of worms for the SNP regarding future decisions post Brexit.

One thing the SNP fail to grasp is that despite playing
silly games, they aren’t in a position of strength. They may control Holyrood
propped up by the Scottish Greens, their ‘allies’ but their support is
faltering.

Powers coming back need to be addressed, new frameworks put
in place, and new agreements reached, but this doesn’t seem to matter to the
SNP, they really don’t care about improvements in Scotland. This is why the Holyrood
Election of 2021 is so crucial, a new direction needs to be established and
that cannot happen with the SNP in control at Holyrood. Nicola Sturgeon faces
defeat at the UK Supreme Court, the SNP track record there is simply appalling,
but for her, its par for the course.

Finally, Nicola Sturgeon is in China, a failing politician
abandoning the ‘day job’ again, one thing she could bring back is a Panda who
likes to get pumped senseless, to replace Tian Tian who is a ‘jaffa’, the Scottish government previously revealed
she was pregnant, but so far nothing. There is nothing ‘so bad’ as an old panda
who fails to produce.

The only thing about the SNP Depute leader race of any
interest is who along with Nicola Sturgeon will lead the SNP into the political
wilderness, it is a contest which doesn’t inspire; there isn’t even anyone with
a vision.

In what must be the most shallowest of contests, the main
issue is Scottish independence, not making Scotland better, not making education
better, not fixing the health service, not fixing the Police mess, just
independence and a timetable for a second referendum.

In order to get some votes, and create an interest in
himself; one of the candidates for top SNP job wants a referendum within 18
months. This plank is called Chris McEleny, there won’t be a referendum within
18 months, it is increasingly looking like anything of that nature would be
beyond the next Holyrood election.

And there is no evidence that the SNP would get a majority
in Parliament even with the Scottish Greens, politics is changing in Scotland, the
landscape post Brexit is something which the SNP can’t get their heads round.
The SNP is a party lost in the past, fight old battles they have already lost.
They may have a new country to pitch to the voters as in we can be like New Zealand,
but the reality is grounded in fable.

Lying, hatred, incompetent and deceit were the hallmarks of
the SNP attempts to win in 2014, the SNP along with their ‘allies’ ran a
campaign of hate, letting their animals run wild in the streets and online.
Now, we have people like SNP MP Pete Wishart calling for ‘respect’.

Too late for that, that boat sailed long ago, along with any
chance of a successful independence bid.

I think, it is clear that out of the three candidates,
Nicola Sturgeon would want Keith Brown, one of the clique, the old guard, he
isn’t original, he isn’t a thinker, he is a sidekick. What the other two McEleny
and Hepburn bring is problems for Nicola Sturgeon. I am sure that Nicola isn’t
keen on Hepburn, a younger woman and her SNP MSP husband being seen as the new
power couple, with her as the woman married to a pensioner.

Timing is everything, it is true in comedy and just as true
in politics, the SNP rushed into the 2014 vote, they thought a ‘jolly fat man’
called Alex Salmond and a white paper of dross, with Nicola Sturgeon as the day
to day face would be enough to con voters. In part, the effort worked, the SNP
cleaned up on the disenfranchised vote especially among the unemployed.

The SNP promised Nirvana, milk and honey and other ‘goodies’
in a magical land which didn’t exist, lies, lies, lies, deceit, contrived
rubbish. The intervention by Chris McEleny means the issue is now set to
dominate the depute’s contest in the run up to the SNP conference in
June, so we can expect people to out do themselves on how keen they are.

The other contenders, cabinet secretary Keith Brown and
activist Julie Hepburn, have decided to be less keen on naming the day, because
in reality, the depute whoever that will be, won’t be the driving force.

Power will remain with the Murrells aka Sturgeon and husband.

McEleny, the leader of the SNP group on Inverclyde Council
is using the excuse of Brexit just as the others in the SNP have to call for a
referendum, but the truth is, it doesn’t matter what the reason is, Brexit is
just an excuse, nothing more.

McEleny said:

“We are moving close to entering into our second decade of
UK Government austerity being imposed upon Scotland. We are moving close to a
new generation of weapons of mass destruction being imposed upon the Clyde in Scotland. Hard
working WASPI women are having their pensions stolen, women who have been raped
are being forced to fill out forms to receive support, the UK’s protect
the rich economy is forcing more and more children into poverty. I believe that
Scotland
cannot afford to wait any longer to see if things can get better, we’ve been getting
sold that message for decades. Simply put, decisions made in Scotland by the people of Scotland are better decisions for Scotland. That
is why we should be independent and that is why I believe we should have a
referendum on our independence within the next 18 months.”

Austerity, pensions, rape and nuclear weapons, what a load
of contrived claptrap, why did he miss out ‘period poverty’, I am still waiting
on the toilet paper poverty campaign but apparently blood is more trendy than
shit to campaign on!

As to the ‘mandate’, there is no mandate; the idea that the
people of Scotland
who already rejected the SNP vision and version of independence should then
have another vote forced on them is bizarre. The Edinburgh Agreement wasn’t
respected by the SNP; the SNP can’t keep saying that they respect the result
when they clearly don’t. If there is the UK Government will to grant another
referendum, this should be based on a clear majority by the SNP in the Holyrood
2021 election.

The SNP are on a downward slide, whether they slide far
enough to continue as a minority government or end up in opposition remains to
be seen. The Yes mob activists want Sturgeon to go now, saying she is duty
bound and they know that that if she doesn’t the SNP might not get a chance in
the parliament after 2021.

People are sick of the SNP, but that leaves other parties to
raise their game considerably to give the SNP the last push out the door. Ms
Sturgeon bottled it after she called for a second referendum in March 2017 because
the SNP lost so badly in the snap election of 2017. The SNP said they had to “reset”
her plans after the SNP lost a third of its MPs in the June election.

I helped put three SNP MPs on the scrapheap, I enjoyed Anne
McLaughlin’s defeat the most, simply put, it was delicious to see her dumb stuck
being shunted out the door at Glasgow North East.

Western Isles MP, ‘three in a bed’ Angus Brendan MacNeil joined
in this week by saying he favoured a referendum within 18 months. Reality
however is setting in as MP Pete Wishart and former SNP deputy Jim Sillars,
have urged caution and highlighted the painful truth, there is a huge No
majority in the polls.

57% still saying No!

Finally, one thing in my mind is certain, Nicola Sturgeon
will never lead the SNP to a successful independence vote; she is part of the rottenness
which is embedded too deep in the party. The Cybernats are just a vocal
expression of the hatred which has been unleashed and no new fairytale will
ever remove that memories of who or what was done in the run up to the 2014
vote.